In linux, it's easy to store user folders on a networked drive - just mount it on /home
- but I can't seem to find any resources for this in XP Pro. Note that I don't need to move the whole C:\Documents and Settings
folder - I understand that there are a couple profiles that need to be located on the local drive. I just want to be able to store user profiles (i.e., what would normally be the folder C:\Documents and Settings\SomeUser
and all of its subfolders) on some networked drive, so that backups can be done from a central place, and if necessary, a user can switch computers and get the same profile, and that an individual computer can be wiped, and replaced with a clean image, and the user's profile will be intact.
I am pretty proficient with XP Pro, but not an IT professional - what is the magic to do this?